72: Stop Fighting Your Anxiety (What to Do Instead)

If you want to feel less anxiety, the key is acceptance and tolerance rather than trying to eradicate it!

In conversation, we discuss

* The difference between feeling anxious and having generalized anxiety disorder

* Why your brain isn't designed for happiness - and how accepting this changes everything

* The white polar bear problem: why "don't think about it" is terrible advice

* How mental compulsions (checking, reassurance-seeking, ruminating) keep you trapped in anxiety cycles

* Why some of you need to push harder while others need to rest (and how to know which)

* How we actually manage our own anxiety without letting it run our lives

* The case for adding "good friction" back into your frictionless life

* Real strategies that work because they stop the fight, not fuel it

We are really working on trying to the grow the podcast so we can get advertisers, if you’d like to support the show one of the best things you can do is leave us a review and share the pod! THANK YOU! We have some incredible BONUS episodes on our SUBSTACK! nuanceneeded.substack.com

To learn more about therapy reach out to Therapy for Women Center, therapyforwomencenter.com. We have therapists licensed in 42 states across the country and have offices if you are local to the Philadelphia area.

Want to join the conversation? Or offer us a correction? You can email us podcast@therapyforwomencenter.com or LEAVE US A MESSAGE at 813-444-8683. We’d love to hear what you think!